The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1887-07-02

selling of "veiled statuary" at social enter
tainments. Alter the sale the wells are with
drawn and each pretty girl becomes for the
time the companion of the person who has
bought her. The effect may be heightened
by putting a dummy among the statues.
COidwater, Kansas, Star :-"Miss jamie L.
Carter. daughter of Hon. VIM. n. Carter.
who has been In attendance at the E. A,
Seminary at Lexington, Mo-. for the past
year, reached here Tuesday t. spend the
summer at home"
Advance:-'Prof. Hicklin, of the Universe
tv, passed through Tuesday, morning, en-
route to Sweet Springs We knew that the
honorable Robert had received bis 'edicstion'
there, but we were not informed that he was
= professor. Maybe our esteemed contempo-
rary meant the great mathematician, Prof.
Ficken.
General James Speed, who died near
Louisville last Saturday, was a notable law
yer OF the south and served for q time as at
~torney-general IN President Lincoln's cabinet.
He was a graceful orator and a fl mt writer.
The death of General Speed leaves the Hon.
John P. Usher, of Kansas, as the only sur
viving member of President Lincoln's cabinet.
Empress CarlOtts, Maxlmilian's widow, is
at the Chateau de Bouchot, Brussels. She Is
constantly attended by two of the ten aristo-
cratic young ladies who are taking turns at
this labor of love. In her walks she looks afsr
off without appearing to notice anything but
birds. She is now ~forty-seven years of age,
has gained some embonpoint, talks more CO.
h%erently than last year and seems somewhat
im~proved-to such a point as to leave u hope
of eventual recovery.
Mr.. Emil ThUringer has rested well every
night since he was wounded. There Is NO
evidence of internal hemorrhsge. On the
contrary the wound In the lung seems to be
healing. No Inflammation has set in TO in
dictate abrasion of the liver, and the prospect
Is that he will speedily recover. We hope
no untoward event may change the present
Indication. Every attention is being paid
him, by bis wife. by the good people at the
Laclede Hotel, and by the Knights of Honor
who sit up with him at night.
We find this note from Hon. E. III.
Edwards, dated Waverly, June q, in the
Jefferson City Tribune:-'In the Tribune Of
June p, I find the folio wing, headed 'Only
a few Survivors, OF the company of one
hundred men who marched out of Chilli.
cothe forty -one years ago under Capt. w. Y.
Slack TO join the army Of the west In the
war with Mexico, only five are known to
be now living, etc." 1 am happy to-day that
the first lieutenant Of that company is now
living an hOnored citizen of the city of
Waverly, In the person of DIR. John w.
Tucker. DIR. Tucker Is a hale old gentleman
and bids fair to live many years vet. So, Mr..
Editor. you can add him to the list as another
survivor OF that company"
And so he died! Poor Jack Hussey, says
the New York Herald of last Saturday, the
brave gateman at Castle Garden. will be
buried to-day. He was the demigod Of the
1SAfEenth ward, and wore his honors with
his exploits. fUu, Everybody was proud OF
human life. That was his recoha;a .aayed
gave him q very agreeable kind of celebrity
He was a rough fellow In his manners, bu
he had the heart of an OK. He lived in
hard neighborhood, but every man, womal
and child was proud to know him. He save,
a woman from drowning In Lake Erie NOR
than thirty years age, and the same day b
married her. An it's the same good wife
have to-day" he was fond of saying when b
told the story. He took to drink, became hi
own worst enemy. and while on one of b
bouts was wantonly shot BY Policema
Hahn. Poor Jack Hussey!